While it has frequently been maindecked, its also been a popular sideboard card, perfect for grinding out attrition-based post-sideboard games, such as the Kithkin deck Cedric Phillips piloted to a top 8 finish in PT Kyoto 2009: Creatures (20) Planeswalkers (4) Lands (25) Spells (11) Sideboard Nowadays, the idea of aggro decks slowing down and going bigger after sideboarding is commonplace, but Cedrics use of it here was especially futuristic for that time period
Just a few orders of magnitude less, right
Another silver-bordered first is the Un -specific ability word mechanic Gotcha! A player reads the flavor text of Carnivorous Death-Parrot
The Lord of the Rings commanders weren't the only ones tempted by the Ring
If that's another creature, it gains the following ability until end of turn.) Whenever this creature attacks, for each attacking modified creature you control, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that creature
You should also prepare another Dragonite on the bench, while the current one is battling hard